Tips and Suggestions For Your Marine Battery Needs
Guest Battery Chargers
In my past experience and even more recent experience, I have really taken a liking to Guest battery chargers.
I love these battery chargers because they will last you a long time. You definitely get your money worth. I have had one last me over 10 years with no problems. Guest battery chargers are relied on by many fishing professionals. If they can trust Guest, why not someone like me?
You will like this brand of battery because they are designed to be easy to install and easy to use. This battery is nearly fool proof. You can just plug it in and have total confidence that your batteries will be fully charged and ready to go.
Guest battery chargers are so much easier to install and use versus the typical method of lugging around a charger with you all the time. Why not have your battery charger installed on your boat and completely out of the way?
My current favorite Guest battery charger is the Guest 2611A Charge Pro Series Marine Battery Charger.
It can charge a 50% drained battery in about 2 hours.
Additional information:
- This model is extremely small too! Dimensions: 7.75" L x 5.5" W x 2.5" H and weighs 6.4 lbs.
- Easy to read LCD charge status
- This battery charger offers 10-12 hour full recovery at 60% discharge. It comes with a 6ft. pre-wired AC cord and two-4ft AC cords.
- This battery is for 12V and 24V battery systems.
- It can withstand harsh environment standards.
- Totally waterproof and has a lifetime warranty against water damage (was designed to have fully potted to waterproof electronics)
- Has a maintenance mode that protects batteries while in storage (doesn’t overcharge)
- Provides Short circuit, ignition and reverse polarity protection
- Used with Flooded, Gel and AGM batteries
- 10 total AMPs
- Outputs: 2
- AMPS per output: 5/5
- Output voltage: 12V
The only problem some people have reported was that the cords were not long enough but that doesn’t seem to be the opinion of the majority.
The overwhelming response from users of Guest battery chargers is that they function properly, are easy to use and go beyond your expectations on an on board charger.